The Sun. — London, England, 1808-04-18 00:00:00

I ~,.~, , MAI LS. ,A PUt Gdttenburgh. r Dublin s Waterford. I)tra —t Gotienburgh, 2 W aterford. `I, El E SUN. 'cast* taut& DICSILL_ *ALBUM AUDiAt ? 'LONDON, idormor, APRIL 18, 1808. AT a late hour last night, Ave Mails from Gotten burgh arrived,"and the intelligence they bring is of considerable importance. The 'appearance et -the :English Squadron in the Sound, seems fOr the pre sent to put an end to the intention of invading Sweden from Zealand; on the other hand, it is said, that the Russians have made some progress in .Firdand, and that the Swedes, from the inferiority of their numbers, have'been forct4 „to retreat. Very large reinforcements have, however, been sent to the SwedishArmy,and we have little doubt that they will be enabled effeetually to check the advance of the invading army, The King of SWZDEN has issued a Proclamation, calling upon all the yoUth of his do minions, between the ages, of 18 and 25, to repair to his standard, a call which we are convinced will be.obeyed with alacrity, and which, it is calculated, will add 150,000 men to his army. His Swedish Rlajestrhas. also published an Answer to the Da pish Declaration of War : it is a plain and simple, but an energetic, defence of the general condu& of Sweden, and a triumphant answer to the frivolous and inconsistenteharges which were brought by. the Da nish Govern men t.What effe& this document will have upon the People of Denmark, if they arc suffered to peruse it, we cannot anticipate ; but we are quite sure that there is a party in this Country to which it will give mortal offence. In this Declaration the King of Svveor.k, notwithstanding the laboured,:Vehernent, and innutnerzble Speeches of the Opposition Lords and Gentlemen in this Country, to chew that the Expeditien, to Copenhagen was one of the most un provoke.l and wicked measures that ever disgraced this Country—the KING of SwinEw,we say, has the presumption to asst it that " the Court of London has since folly justified this enterprize, and the experi ence of every day justifies s But the : 6bo, vit is not the ,only Paragraph in this, State Paper which must be, offensive to o'nr. Patriotic Opposition. It cannot be forgotten .110 W often and how . patheticallY they ~have bewailed the fully, as they termed it, of the 'Yi * ING of SwEtiarr, in suffering himself to be per.. suaded by the 'British Government to engage in an ottrtilve W,4 AN:hist France and her Allies, nor with %visit d i „t,rested earnestness they advised him to join Fraruirk' 411 e Confederacy against Great \V WriC rise and Indignation then must these Gent;e';- feel when they read the fellow . Mg passai T . in the pwedish Declaration : " it is proper here .to render to His Britannic Majesty the most authentic solemn testimony,' that in ail his transaiaions with Sweden he never de manded oireitsive measures, nor required any thing that was not perfectly compatibles with its tranquillity and independence. The most recent and convincing proof of this is the promptitude with which his Mi niitry, acceded to the proposal of the King for the pacification of the Baltic, by a fornial promise not to send thither any Ships of War onicon4itions useful And honourable to all the North." • Thee Papers also contain some details of the capture, of the Danish 74, the Prince. Christian; they are, we helieve„ . dorreet, - except with regard to the number of men killed ':ind wounded on board the Dane : there. were /53 men killed, .and 88 Wounded: Our loss on -beard the two Ships was islyant five killed and, -10 Wkiptlded. The total num ber of men on board the Danish Ship was 576. Private Letters brought by the Mail sititte, .that Von finstC4oerr heard Of the arrival of the Bri tish SqoadrOn, he precipitately left Zo:ihind,' and not a Frettchmawhad arrived in that Island as late as the 9th inst. The same Letters state, that the peo ple of Svi,C,6l :40 in the hid, - beit spirits,:-and maul ..tesi, urn' e r ty occasion, the strongest sentiments of • We have received Barbadoes Papery, fiorr. which we have made the foilowing extracts " Accounts from Bermuda, as late as the t) th instant, give assurer ces of an amicable termination of tho'differences between England and America.-- Among the canScs which have chiefly influenced the more tenwerate diz,cussinna on the p ar t o f Congress, is said to be that of the Northern Mates baving, opcnl> avOmed a determination to sepa 'rate from the Union in the event of a war between the two Countries, and throw , themselves under Cie proteetion of Vatgland. The Statira Frigate ,bed arrived At Bermuda, and a Vessel was diswtched thereupon to England, with infortn-dion of Mr. nose's receptiot, Atm-vice, and being engaged in the objeCts of his mission. cr The Hussar ,Fripte, which came out with the last Cork Convoy, and procepcled to the Southward *ith the Trade for those Coloniett, syriveg heft on Thursday from Demerara. " '" Ten Sail of homeward bound Trader" limn Demerara, under convoy of the Julia Brig, arrived hero yesterday ; and we understand proceed on! Monday under convOof the Epervier. BRIDGE Town (BARBADOUS)i Fin. 97.—Sir A. COCIIRA%E, in the Beliefsle, returned to this anchor age on Wednesday last froth off Martinique, and during that and the following day the Ramifies, York, and Defence, of the Line, with the /Pp and Latona Frigates, also came into . Carlisle Bay. The dispatcheifound upon the Russian Courier, who was arrested on the 7th ult. on the Swedish territories, as he was coining from St Petersburgh, and which were intended for M. ALUPEUS, the Rus sian Minister at Stockholm, are of a very interesting nature. The King of Sweden has submitted them to his people, in the form of a pamphlet, pub- lished at Stockholm, and notes and comments ex planatory of each dispatch have been' annexed:— The following is the preface to this curious work : • " The irrOption of the Russian troops into Finland, and the incendiary Proclamations circu lated in the. I'rovi9ce, were already known to the King, whilst .the Minister of Russia, M. ALOPEUS, had not yet made any communication that could pave the way for such intelligence, and no cou riers nor dispatches from the Swedish Ambaisidor at Pctersburgh had arrived sitiee , those 'Cvents. Considering, therefore, that Minister as deprived of his pUblic quality by the insidious aggression of his Court, as a.. dangerous enemy, by the 'revolu tionary principles with which that aggression was ,accompanied,, and as a hostage for the Ambassador, whose liberty had in all probability been violated, his Majesty ordered, on the 2d of March, that a mi litary guard should be stationed with M. ALOPEUS. " This measure, which in every other circum stance would have been extremely repugnant to the King, has been fallyjustified by the event: a Cou rier for Petersburgh arrived at Seyneldskar oa the 22d, and set out on the 2ath of Feb ruary bitror nea for Stockholm, having bees arrested on the 7th of March, a mile from Harnosand, with the folluat ing'dispatches ,No. 1, is a Letter from Count itOI4ANZOFF to M. Atopctrs, dated the 17th Feb. enclosing the Swedish Ambassador's Note to the Russian,Go. vernment, and the answer of the latter, 41 - iich M. ALOPEUS IS ordered to communicate to the Swedish Ministry. Upon the expression in Couit ROMAszorg's Note, that it still depended • upon the Xing to preserve harmony between the two States, the Swedish Government observes in a Note—. " The Russian army was to eater I Finland before the Russian Declaration could be delivered, and of course thetefore before an answer could be re ceived—Yet they have the impudence to speak harmony—And they praise so much the Palace. IioYAL of Dat.sAttx for having refused to treat with England after hostilities—and yet ,'they propese, it to the King of Swenetst. Contradi&ions, bad reasoning, and falsehood, are the usual concomi tants of injustice," Note 2, is a Note froin ,Baron STEDINGX to . Count 1101HANZOM in which Russia is reminded that she who was the principal support of the Cop. vention of Armed Neutrality in 1780, was° the first to abolish it in 1801. But the King of Sweden thinks it possible that England might still 'Consent to the 'neutrality of the Baltic. • • t No. 3, is the reply of M. DR ROMANZOII7; which was given in I:1'1'E SUN on the 23( . 1 ult. No. 4, is h DiSpateh to M. Ai.OPEUS from M. DE RoMANZor'F, who sends him the Order ,Ot St. v ki , Da m ia , as a token of his Imperial MA. Jr,STY'S satisfa4tion. " The • EtvlnittOft t " ' says the Note, is very, much satisfied with the list of the Swedish Fleet you: have sent me, and I expe6t with so much the more, impatience, the documents you promise me relative to the land forces a n d th e i n . .• • • terior of the co u ntry (1.) At present . these cloeu.. • ments.are more necessary than ever, and you know the WV ice you will do his MAJBEITY in proctuing thetil as exact as possible." IS is Note troth Count. RostAt4ow to M. D'AtoPetri, desiring him to sound Baron Diets/d -iet...or, and to flatter his ambilinn, in order to in clude him to quit the Court' of Stockholm (the sub stance of this Note has been given in THE Sue)-- This Dispatch concludes with observing that Count noxozow is well acquainted with tel, Acokevs' experience lii business (2). No.'6, it a Letter from Count NicitoLAs Ito- MAyZOpF to M. DE LISAKEWITBCII, the Russian Al i. *si • ster at Copenhagen, instructing him to press the Danish Ministryi to .co-operate with Russia loipersaading the Court of Stockholm to join titee two Powers against England, or, in case of its yelu sal,' to declare war against it. (i) The plan. no dimbt, was to revolutionize Sweden, as it was attempted to revolutionize Finland. Can a Sovereign so far forger himself t To descend to the obscure parris:or treason and corruption ; to sacrifice the respea due by every laWful Sovereign to the ties that unite sable& to their Go vernments - such are the examples afforded in an Empire composed of ten dittirent nations that bate each other.— ( Note by the Swedish Government.) (ti) It is this clperience which Justifies 'the measures cif the King towards M. A Lotsus.—(uitto.) . • NAVAL NEWS. PLY 4011TET, AP - Rtt, "16.—Arrived his Majesty's Sloop Peacock, Oil B — grins, with nine Light Trans ports ti.om the Eastward; Cheerly Gun-brig,.from Torbay ; Joseph Cutter and Pickle Schooner from Falmouth. Sailed his MajestY's Shii,'Achilie, of 74 guns, to, join the Channel Fleet. Came in the Deptford Transport from the East ward. Sailed his. Majesty's Ship Champion, of 34 guns; and the Crane and Capefin . Schooners to the West ward. Came down from the Harbour, and anchored in the Sound his, Majesty's Ship I irginie, 0'36 guns, and Sitrinam' Brig, and remain with the Alexander and Phcetrix Frigates. Pozasmouvr, 17.--, , Yesterday arrived the Liellette Sloop of War, Capt. SANDERS, from Ply month. Sailed yesterday the Vulontairc Frigate, Pilot Brig, and Prevoygnte Store-ship, with a County for the Mediterranean. Arrived the Boadicea Frigate, Capt. MAITLAND, from a cruize off Havre. The convoy which sailed this afternoon for Hali fax and Quebec, when joined by the Ships from Torbay, PlymoUth, and Cork, will consist of nearly loco Sail, which is treble the number that.li'as sailed atone time forpqny years.--This great id/crease of trade to North - America is to be attributed - to the present' stagnant state 'of trade in the Baltic.---It is believed . that it will be found necessary to appoint four convoys in the year instead of two. The President rilgate, Capt. McKaNztz, is ex peaecl to sail on Monday with the Convoy for the Brazils. The next Convoy for the East Indies is-expeaed to sail soon : the Lightning, Capt. DoYLE, has made the Convoy Signal, and the Earl Si.. Vincent, Streatham, Lady Jane - Dundas, Jane Duc4ess- Gordon, Bengt', Huddart, and Harriet East India men, are waiting at the Motherbank to be dispatched. TottnAy, APIUL IG.---Arrived His Majesty's Brig Hardy from a cruize. Sailed His Majesty's Cutters Nimrod and Betsey for the Fleet off Brest. GREENOCK, APRIL IB.—Passed yesterday for Port . Glasgow the President Dunn,'SzewAar, from Newfoundland (last from New York and Madeira). Spoke on the 31st ult. in lat. 42. 54. N. long. 141. W. the WsMaris, PRAYMAN, Charles, TURNIIIML, and Julian, 13Oiwsm,, all from Liverpool fc.)r St . Domingo, out nine days, all well; they had spoke a British Frigate, two days before, and gave infor mation of a French Brig Privateer in lat: 47. 48. N. the Frigate being then its-quest of the Privateer. The Lord Melville, AuL.D,. has arrived at Port Glasgow froni St. Kitts, after a passage of 4s days. 'On the 28th February, standing out front St. Kitts, in company with the, Lord Cranston, GIBSOS, for Liverpool, and Ciao,' LEMON; for T..ondon, saw 35 Sail of Vessels otf Nevis Point, which he supposed to be the Fleet that sailed from Cork in January. . On the encircling of the 3d March, in lat. 22. 33 . long. 65. 51. fell in with the French Privateer Bar"- tory, mounting twelve tt-pnunders, with ttio men on board when she left 'Guadaloupe; the Pri vateer immediately bore down within gun-shot of the. Lord Melville and the Lord Cranston, but not liking their appearinee, hauled her Wind to the Southward, • on purpose to' cut off the Clio, she being at that .time . hull down aster!! t he Lord Melville' aud.the Lord Cranston then bore away, having all Clear for aflien. and prevented her fi f omaccomplidling her purpose.; the Privateer finding them determined to prevent her from capturing the C/io, bawled close upon a wind. and left them. The Lord Melville parted company with the Ciin on the 4th March, in lat. 24,43. long. 66 Part ed company with the Lord Cranston the sth March, In lat. 26. 3.10ng. 67, 36. Saw . a Ship on the 26th March; which he supposed to be Lord Cranston,with the loss of her main and mizen topsail-yards, in lat. 42. IS. long: 35; 14. but she . not, minding the sig nals, di - d not pay any attention to her. On the 30th March spoke the Huntress, from Liverpool, bound to BosiOn, in lat 45.'71. long. 31. 32. all Admiral DUCKWOUTR, with five . Sail of the Line, left St. kites and went to leewaid on the 22d of February. The Brig Stag, Lova, arrived at Port Glasgow, from Jaquetnelle, St. Domingo. On the 3d March, at 6 A. M. fell in with a Fleet bound to Jamaica, al l -well, Altavala bearing N. W. distance 14 leagues; at the same time was spoke by His Majesty's Brig 'Moselle, who had left the Fleet to chace a Priiateer, which she capthred, and with which she again joined the Fleet. The Commander of the Moselle inquired if a, Fleet bad been seen by Captain Lova a tew days before. On the 6th March was boarded in,the Mena Passagetty His Majesty's Ship Melam pus. On the 14th, was boarded by His Majesty's Brig Demerara, with Dispatches from Bermuda for the West Indies, Bermuda bearing W. thirty leagues. r"''" GOTTENBURGFI MAILS, A:;SV•.'::R OF SWEDLN TO Tkin‘pttNISICPECLLRATIOS. t' E, OF WAR. Court of Denmark had made an alliance with France; was prepared to receive French troops in id country; colleeted. transport vesseli in its ports; fit ted out all - its ships in the road of Copenhagen, to' cover a French Expedition against Sweden, and tee issuei - 1 - Dedaratioti — or - War Denitiark aCcuset Sweden of being the cause of ;his rupture, because she did . not make her compliments of condolence oil the loss of the Fleet; because she would me . co-opv rate to av enge that, humiliation ; and eapctially cause she . sought 'aid from England' against intit 34 aggression. The relations : of .the King with lilt neighbouring Power were, these of a simele peece. There was neither alliance, nor atly CouVention whatever,, which traced out for the two Courts any common course for their political condua... There fore, when Sweden, Russia, and Prussia, fur: is conjunction against France, Derunark, ender the shade of her neutrality, appeared the friend of all. The King witnessing this system, and convinced by some explanations denianded in the course,, of the year 1896; of the impossibility.of obtaining a change favourable to Sweden, could not entertain a hope that the naval force of Denniark could ever be useful to him ; on the contrary, after the Peace of TilSit, he had every reason to fear that, by the suggestions of Russia and France, it 'might be turned against him. His Majesty, therefore, thought it proper to preserve a profound silence .relative to the evenfr, which passed in his vicinity last autumn, leaving to England and futurity to justify thine. It is 4tte truth, however, to declare, that the Court of Lon don did not invite Sweden to take walla this Expe• dition, nor confided it to her till the moment vi ill being carried into execution ; therefore not the least movement was made in Sikeden on this oceesieui the English Fleet arrived and departed %%Pithiest en tering into any port of Sweden,, and the amciliart troops, embarked in Pomerania, were reatoced ita virtue of a separate article in the Convention cOO - at London, relative to this object, on the 1 7th. of Jude,' 1807, when certainly there war as yet no reference to the Expedition. 'De following is the article : " It is fully understood, that in case unforeseen Circumstances should render impra&iconle the objed of this Convention, or that his Britannic Majesty. , should find it necessary to withdraw the said„ troops (the Gentian legion) from swedish l'ornerania, the stipulation of this Convention shall in no ,u annex prevent his Britannic Majesty from givin such orders as he may judge proper with teapot te the ulterior disposition of these troops, 01).,11' 'ar'e'' now placed under the ()niers of his Swte.o,4* Maj esty," The Court Of 'London has since fully justified tic enterprize, and the experience of every da y justifies g it. Numerous French Armies 'remained in 4.4( 4 e.!, Saxony and over-awed the North : th ere were still eiations to subjugate, ports to shut,' and tortes to dire& against England : these Were to penetrate thither at any _rate : they , w ould hove acted `lets case, and under any pretence that Mieht have otieted. At present, it is the Expedition against the Danis h Fleet which is the rallying word ..61 t h e wh o le 4° ,. le.igue. What is remarkable is, that the Amy" Government, already beset by French' trople! ! , Rtlf: powered, impelled, and even paid by Franeeyiss,w-i a Declaration of War against Sweden, without " 1 fins even to name the Power : which fercel.l‘ ; • It seeks, with embarrassments,..grievenees and l"'' • sons, to appeal to have had ie tine dereriiiitiatieu will of its own... It cites the ioiiiormra"" 4) Sweden 'against the arrest of the Sweeihili waits 1 vexatious,' while in its severity against Etilien respondence if' would net seder it to pass viCCOrclint to Treaty, and declares that it is itneeriotislyeblie, to take these measures. It pretends to know .ul4 thoughts of the King, and iinaginea. them .icier`" gressioti upon Sweden. It though ,for some mon th s it eta s concerted an ag rs • the interests of the conntry, though it Ilea abou t : , cloned its own interests, and even its existeoce,,a afreigq luduonce. In title, it reproachea.Sw,db,:i. with having provided tor her detettee by a se ., diary Treaty, though itself is paid toren .I;gress,no, e a n ines and than it pronounces, though indeed wit. h of tirnidity, the word reeteenere, whiee t pretends to reason verunlent that pays it had prehably crue:ly to it. . It is proper hare to render to his Britannic Ma jesty the most-authentic testitnotirhat lilt all 10 traospelions with Sweden he never demanded o'ffen sive measures, nor required any thing that was net . petfetAly Compatible r with and illtie; Residence... The most recent and c0t:n . 1 136 4 P!", ; ,,' with wbicla Isis o ti nf c c a te t i i di o ies n sist o of f htet t ' h up e rpo li rmo a p t p t o i l i is : ti , utid( Ti t y l o ti n o o n urable to all the N Q ' rtb.,_tor the Da4i44 Government read in' this proposition tho c,° 4 1 ) . 433 as re en t idl. aga u i d n t h a s t thi Swedent e o r tt ' h S i c s l o ' cu i t p u s i p o n l p itli ri s : lt % s t r i a u . r t : r w: l l l: d it. c l ° i l; d lit:lll,; stat ;;l when it shall return to itself, let It cornotte tile of things which the King has desired, WO t ii : c 3; which France and Russia wish—Let 311 the n of .France read in this consent of England the dif" ference between the connections which . unite th! two Courts, and those which enchain them, an ° let them pronounce on which side is to beAnnuil a duo regard for particular interests's just moder4liou for the genera) good. Denmark herself bas been, during a long dol e ' the objea of his moderation, and did not cease."' be so' till she became absolutely dangerous. Whe, the North was outraged by the devihiation, Lower Saxony; by the oppression of the l-lanea t ' a Towne, what didtshe to avenge thrill ? Swed e "' Prussia, and Russia, made war tor that cb jed ; but no one thought of forcing Denmark so' take part in it. She was the Ally of Russia the as well as at present. Why did. she not erith tier rato her cause ? What could she then alledge for tranquillity, which Sweden cannot now, alledge this is explained by the single fad, which she co' deavours to conceal. that she is under t) C' ence . 4the French Government. Had Eng and 1, ti principles of this enemy, she wool° bare waited the moment of tier surrender to her; she would have,invaded her several years D', ; fore; she would nave gua rded lief, and all this wit!, a view to the good of th e North; Her ancient, liar= with Russian is made a prete xt for this • s 4